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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gholam-Reza Zadno-Azizi, Newark, CA (US);
Ketan P Muni, San Jose, CA (US);
Celso J Bagaoisan, Union City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Percusurge, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
604530 ; 604 96 ; 604523 ; 600585 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides an apparatus for performing angioplasty or vascular intervention procedures. The apparatus of the present invention comprises a catheter apparatus comprised of a superelastic hollow guidewire, a balloon member and a flexible tip. The superelastic hollow guidewire of the invention is preferably a hypotube of nitinol alloy. The use of nitinol alloy as hollow guidewire provides a catheter apparatus having high flexibility and torqueability as well as small cross sectional diameter.